Emma Lewis, 84, of Van Wert, passed away at 6:45 a.m. Saturday, January 27, 2018, at Colonial Nursing Home in Rockford.<\/p>\n
She was born June 23, 1933, in Paulding County, a daughter of Benjamin and Artie (Shaw) Hoover, who both preceded her in death.\u00a0She was first married to Roy Raudabaugh and then to John Lewis.<\/p>\n
Survivors include four daughters, Sharon Lindimore, Linda Schriver, Cindy Hyden, and Evelyn Thurston.\u00a0 Also surviving are 10 grandchildren and numerous great-grandchildren.<\/p>\n
Two sons, Stevie and Roy, and all of her siblings also preceded her in death.<\/p>\n
There will be no viewing or visitation. There will be a graveside service in the spring at a time and place to be announced.<\/strong><\/p>\n Arrangements were made through Brickner Funeral Home in Van Wert.<\/p>\n Condolences may be expressed at www.bricknerfuneralhome.com<\/a> or emailed to bricknerfuneralhome@bright.net<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Emma Lewis, 84, of Van Wert, passed away at 6:45 a.m. Saturday, January 27, 2018, at Colonial Nursing Home in Rockford. She was born June 23, 1933, in Paulding County, a daughter of Benjamin and Artie (Shaw) Hoover, who both preceded her in death.\u00a0She was first married to Roy Raudabaugh and then to John Lewis. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-98187","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-obituaries"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-24 06:41:56","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98187","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=98187"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98187\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}